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Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY FUSTIER, OF LYONS, FRAXCE.

MANUFACTURE OF FURS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,543, dated October6,1885.

Application filed June 1 1885. Serial No. 167,132. (No model.) Patentedin France August 8, 1884, No. 163,695 in Belgium April 24, 1885, No.68,621; in England April 27, 1885, No. 5,186 and in Italy May 9, 1885,No. XXXVI, 275,

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HENRY FUSTIER, a citizen of the Republic of France,residing at Lyons, have invented an Improvement in the Manufacture ofFurs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to producea new article for trimmings ofdresses and other articles of apparel.

Strips and pieces of fur of different sizes and shapes have beenemployed for trimming dresses and other articles of apparel. This furhas been dyed and otherwise prepared for use, but the surface of the furhas been plain.

My improvement relates to fur, the surface of which is not plain, but isornamented by figures applied to the surface of the fur, so that suchfur is improved in appearance and better adapted to the trimming andornamenting of dresses and other articles of apparel.

The animals skin is tanned or prepared in any ordinary manner, and wherethe fur is to be colored the dye is applied in any usual way. After thefur is otherwise ready for use, I subject the same to the action of diesof a proper size and shape to apply to the surface of the fur thedesired design or designs by pressure. It is usually preferable to applya sizing or an adhesive water-proof material to the surface of the diesbefore such dies are pressed upon the fur, in order that such materialmay adhere to the surface of the fur and vary the appearance of suchsurface.

This material should be of such a character as not to be influenced bymoisture to which the fur may be subjected. The dies made use of areusually to be heated, and with some qualities of fur the heated diesalone may be made use of for giving to the surface of the fur thedesired ornamental or mottled appearance.

In the drawing I have illustrated my invention by the representation ofa piece of fur having the aforesaid mottled appearance.

By my improvement the fur is not injured, but the appearance of itssurface is completely changed, and the portions that are not subjectedto pressure stand in relief, and those portions that have been subjectto pressurereflect the light in a very different manner from the naturalsurface of the fur.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, fur, thesurface of which is figured and different in appearance in differentplaces, the same being produced by the pressure of dies, substantiallyas specified.

The foregoing specification of my improvement in the manufacture of fursigned by me this 12th day of May, 1885.

HENRY FUSTIER.

Witnesses:

JULEs LEPINETTE, MARK PERRY PEIOTTE.

